Tag: Libra

Fresh reports have revealed that France wants to block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in Europe. Meanwhile, financial regulators in Switzerland say they are open to international cooperation in the creation of a regulatory framework for the proposed cryptocurrency project. Libra Shall Not Pass London-based City A.M. has released a report purportedly from AFP that regulators in Read more…

Altcoins will return to prominence as Bitcoin market cap share is bound to decrease, cryptocurrency exchange Binance has stated. Binance: Bitcoin Dominance ‘Sticking Around’ In its latest bulletin which went live on September 4, Binance Research, the exchange’s analytics arm, repeated claims made in July that Bitcoin’s current market dominance would not last indefinitely. Officials Read more…

China’s Government and Central Bank just can’t seem to align on the proposed central bank digital currency (CBDC). On Tuesday, government-supported tabloid, Global Times, reported that the Central Bank called speculation on an upcoming launch ‘inaccurate speculation’. Then yesterday, it published an article suggesting that plans are gaining momentum, with a pilot-scheme in Shenzhen imminent. Read more…

Ripple’s XRP has been fairly stagnant this past week after ‘suffering’ a small 4% price decline, bringing the price of XRP down to $0.2694 at the time of writing. The cryptocurrency’s price has fallen 15% in the past 30 days with a further 37% drop over the previous 90 days, despite the rising price of Read more…

Governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney put forward the idea of replacing the U.S. dollar with a central bank-issued cryptocurrency like Facebook’s Libra. Carney Proposes The Synthetic Hegemonic Currency On August 23, 2019, while addressing the Federal Reserve Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Carney described how Brexit uncertainties, persistent world trade tensions, and Read more…

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the co-founders of crypto exchange Gemini, admitted in an interview with CNN that they were ready to partner with Facebook for the Libra project. Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss Believe in Libra On August 19, Winklevoss brothers told CNN’s Poppy Harlow that they would close their eyes to their rivalry with Facebook’s Read more…

Billionaire investor Tim Draper says Bitcoin price will be worth more than $250,000 before 2023. He also believes the digital asset will be a major method of exchange in the future. Boxing and Bitcoin Billionaire venture capitalist and Bitcoin bull Tim Draper is making media waves again. Draper is well known for predicting that Bitcoin Read more…

US President Donald Trump is not a big fan of bitcoin. But that does not stop his former advisers from saying positive words about the world’s most expensive crypto asset. Bannon on Bitcoin Steve Bannon, who was the chief strategist to Trump during his first seven months in the White House, thinks cryptocurrencies like bitcoin Read more…

US president Donald Trump thinks he’s being smart but it could be that China ends up denting his re-election prospects and boosting bitcoin. The US Federal Reserve not playing ball doesn’t help either – and the more he pushes the harder he makes it for Jay Powell to maintain his institutions independent standing – or Read more…

On Tuesday, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo said that the US couldn’t technically ban Bitcoin, given that it is a global innovation. However, in theory, there does exist a handful of ways to kill Bitcoin. US Politicians Agree that Bitcoin is Unbreakable Yesterday, the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs discussed Read more…